Kadyn (Book 2)

"Mr. Tucket" by Gary Paulsen

Part of a series featuring the main character Mr. Tucket

A train trip to Oregon, a Kidnapping, what else to get a young reader going?! 

Kaleb (Book 2)

"Dolphin Tale" adapted and written by Gabrielle Reyes

A junior novel based on the hit movie! An injured dolphin (the tail being damaged by a crab trab) has its tail amputated and is nursed back to health using a man-made tail. Crazy true story! You can actually visit the dolphin down in Florida. 

Kaleb on the roll! 

Wild at Heart (Book 10)

"Wild At Heart" by John Eldredge

Timely read for a guy going through guy stuff. I've read multiple reviews on GOODREADS and must admit I could care less if its viewed sexist, religious right, or just plain 50's mentality. The one thing that sticks out in my individual personality is the need to take risk, take chances, and make life more than simply existing, living and breathing, wasting space and time. 

I don't agree 100% with Eldredge, but I rarely agree with ANYONE. He makes a compelling case regardless. 

AND....I could care less really what people think. BOOK 10 completed "Thank You"

Kaleb (Book 1)

"James and the Giant Peach" by Roald Dahl

Kaleb has a few more books coming along, but finished this one the other day at school. He was excited to finally complete it! 

The classic "Giant Peach" book! 

It was awesome to see Kaleb get wrapped up in reading this book and my hope is "wapped up in reading". Isn't that just peachy!? : ) 

The Martian (Book 9)

"The Martian" by Andy Weir

Take "Cast Away" and mix it with "Gravity" and you have the book "The Martian"

Not a bad start for Andy Weir's first novel. Holy Cow I read this in two days! Fast moving thriller that lived up to Amazon's Editor Pick's Top 25. Really? How about Top 10....hands down.

There is no doubt this will be a movie. 

If you love science, space, mixed with a littele sci-fi thriller...this book is for you! Put it in your "to-read" list.

Made a great read for book nine in the reading blitz 2014

No Time For Goodbye (Book 8)

"No Time For Goodbye" by Linwood Barclay

Another Barclay book to fill the time! He's usually a quick thrilling read and this book was no exception. Caught myself browsing the book shelves in Barnes and Noble in Sioux Falls, SD and fill prey to another Barclay book. "Oh well!" 

I had fun with this book as my wife wanted me to narrate to her, so she could enjoy the book too! So, rolling through the South Dakota landscape together we finished "No Time For Goodbye"

If you like suspense, fast-paced action thrillers....I highly suggest Barclay. 

On the Road (Book 7)

"On the Road" by Jack Kerouac

Listed as one of the "Top 100 novels to read before you die" and listed as one of the classic's of our time, I quickly added it to my reading blitz. 

Fairly chewy book with a "much a do about nothing"

It wasn't that I didn't find the book interesting, but there were times where I grew a little bored of all the kid-like, drunken episodes of car stealing and girl gawking. 

It was written as one continous piece and often times the long run on sentences would rule the day...(must have been a Beat Generation thing...coined by Kerouac himself) here is an example.

So in America when the sun goes down and I sit on the old broken-down river pier watching the long, long skies over New Jersey and sense all that raw land that rolls in one unbelievable huge bulge over to the West Coast, and all that road going, all the people dreaming in the immensity of it, and in Iowa I know by now the children must be crying in the land where they let the children cry, and tonight the stars'll be out, and don't you know that God is Pooh Bear? the evening star must be drooping and shedding her sparkler sims on the prairie, which is just before the coming of complete night that blesses the earth, darkens all rivers, cups the peaks and folds the final shore in, and nobody, nobody knows what's going to happen to anybody besides the forlorn rags of growing old, I think of Dean Moriarty, I even think of old Dean Moriarty the father we never found, I think of Dean Moriarty.

Now...that's a sentence!